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Papyrus 1607
- Record Id:
- 040-003665614
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103155668.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465764.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1607
- Title:
- Petition to a Strategus (P.Lond. V 1651, TM 19675)
- Scope & Content:
- Petition to Aurelius Hermias, leading councillor of Hermopolis and strategus, from Aurelius Dios, son of Apollon, complaining that his wife Hermione had abandoned him taking valuable objects and documents with her. Dios asks that the woman be kept in custody until the civil governor (praeses) arrives. With subscription of Dios at the end, written by someone else as he is illiterate.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003665614 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1607 : Petition to a Strategus (P.Lond. V 1651, TM 19675) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1648]/040-003665614
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, complete but severely damaged by insect holes throughout; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 24 lines, some of which are mutilated. Margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465764.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0363
- End Date:
- 0363
- Date Range:
- 20 April 363
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 258 x 157 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 305 x 205 mm.
Script: Thin, rapid cursive hand, somewhat uneven; different hand for the subscription in the last three lines.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1651
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 311.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 8-10, no. 1651.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 97.
I. Arnaoutoglou, ‘Marital Disputes in Greco-Roman Egypt’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 25 (1995), pp. 11-28 (p. 24 and passim).
J. E. Grubbs, Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood (London-New York: Routledge 2002), pp. 215-216.
Ägyptische Urkunden aus den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. Griechische Urkunden, XIX. Band: Urkunden aus Hermupolis, hrsg. v. H. Maehler (München – Leipzig: 2005), no. 2770, 4-5 n.
J. G. Keenan et al. (eds.), Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 172-173, no. 4.2.5, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)